Hey there, haven’t posted here before, so I apologize in advance if I’m doing this wrong. Anyway, I thought I’d highlight this Devastation build, that I’ve been getting pretty good results with.
So, I initially pretty much copied this from callie, but I wasn’t a fan of the Chain Lightning, because in my brain it was slightly ruining the theme. Instead I went with the Aetherstorm in order to get the granted skill and I think it works pretty nicely.
Mostly just wanted to showcase this, but I’d definitely appreciate any tips and ideas from the people here to make this even stronger (I have zero clue about breakpoints etc. even after hundreds of hours). I’m more than happy to rework the build, at least as long as it’s original theme remains the same.
Here’s a few example videos. Nothing top tier, but it’s something:
Ravager of Minds. This is definitely not HC viable, at least not the way I play it. Mostly using the heavily reduced Mirror cooldown to my advantage. If the rotation fails, death is likely.
Edit: Apparently this ended up in Grimtools Builds, which I didn’t really intend, since it’s not what I would call a “build guide.” It’s still a very good build however (depending on your standards), so I hope it’s okay.
Hell yeah. Aether has always been the coolest damage type to me and I had one of those helmets lying around. I wish I didn’t have to kill my one true love… I mean Anasteria for it though.
Your build was the most up-to-date, so I went with it. I briefly toyed around with Panetti’s missiles (due to the RR thing), but I didn’t like it. The Aether Lightning skill is much more thematic and the ring set is actually pretty good too. The Devotion path is all yours though I believe, so thanks a lot.
I played aether devastation a few patch ago, when a few Devas modified items got plenty juicy buffs (especially the Outcast helm). Of course i tried the Krieg set like you did, but since it cannot convert every source of elemental dam-> aether dam, it felt short really quick in my favor. A lot of damage sources that had dual elemental/ aether damage which cannot fully convert to aether with just scepter (maximum 54%), include Devastation itself, and a tons of secondary skills/procs: scepter proc/ helm proc/ blue set proc/ devotion proc (aetherfire and Spear)… So i did break the krieg set and got to figure some items with ele-> aether conversion, and this is my final set up with the crapy gear i had: Spellbinder, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
I did feel the damage is much better (fully conversion and bonus 20 RR ring+ conduit), and the tankiness is about the same with Krieg set (due to conduit and higher physic res) and MoT, MoE + a hell of CDR, it felt much smoother and more comfortable to play around. You can try it for another taste if you like full-aether devas, hope that help
I did actually initially use the RR ring and I also had a pretty good Kaisan amulet with +3 to Devastation (never tried the Conduit). But I kinda fell in love with the Aether Lightning skill from the ring&amulet set after I tried it out. It’s thematically perfect, so I think I’ll keep 'em.
I might try without Krieg’s, although I kinda hate losing all those skill points. But you’re right that full conversion couldn’t hurt.
I did kinda move on to focus on my other characters for now, but this is my one true love, so I’ll probably be back to it at some point again.
